I actually feel like a college student...

So the good news is that after four years of college classes, today I actually felt like a college student. I think the funniest part about it is the fact that we weren't even in the classroom today.

Justin and Levi decided that today the class was going to take a field trip so we went to Wichita for lunch and a movie. The movie ended up being the new Ben Stein documentary, Expelled. For those of you who haven't seen it, you should. The documentary is about the fact that free speech is dying in our country when it comes to anything that even remotely resembling something like Christianity and science. Mainly Darwinism versus Intelligent Design (ID).

For those of you who don't know, ID is the idea that the universe and the species were created by an intelligent being (not necessarily God, just any intelligent being) and not by Darwin's idea of natural selection. As it turns out, there are scientists, professors, teachers, respected, highly intelligent people in this world who are being fired, expelled and blackballed because they have mentioned something in papers or speeches about ID. Why? Because other, stupid people who don't know what they are talking about believe that ID refers to the Christian idea of creationism, which it doesn't.

I think my favorite part of the documentary came when Ben was interviewing a fairly well-known scientist, self proclaimed atheist, and author of "The God Delusion," Richard Dawkins. The reason this is my favorite part is because after pretty intense questioning about the origin of life, and where that first particle comes from, Dawkins says something about an alien or some other intelligent being coming down and planting it there. Um... Hello? Do you realize what you just said? I think he does because immediately after that, all he can really answer is "I don't know." "I don't know." "I don't know." Personally if I had read his book, and if I had believed him, I would no longer have any respect for him. In front of millions of people, he not only contradicted himself, but now he can't even back pedal out of it, so all he can say is "I don't know."

It seems that the general populous wants to exclude anything that could even remotely be connected to Christianity from everything, science, society, everything. Even though I support a relative separation of such things, I don't think you can completely discount Christianity from things. It is in fact a part of our society and life whether we believe it or not and trying to eliminate it will eliminate a large part of what makes our society what it is. Take that as you will.